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Historian of Latin America

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Nationalizing Nature

November 4, 2020 by fredericofreitas

Nationalizing Nature is my first monograph, published in 2021 by Cambridge University Press as part of their Latin American Studies Series. The book demonstrates how Brazil and Argentina employed national parks to develop and settle frontier areas, casting light on conservation’s crucial role in the territorial growth of the region. In the process, a distinct national park model–combining the preservation of nature and settler colonization–is highlighted. From the press: “Today, one-quarter of all the land in Latin America is set […]

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Nationalizing Nature – Book Talk

October 6, 2020 by fredericofreitas

In this video I talk about my upcoming book, Nationalizing Nature: Iguazu Falls and National Parks at the Brazil-Argentina Border. The book was written with the support of a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship. The book will be out in May 2021, with Cambridge University Press.

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Landscape Change in Brasília

August 21, 2020 by fredericofreitas

Landscape change in Brazil’s new capital, 1970s-2010s This is a preliminary study carried out with the help of Samuel Franklin on land cover change in Brasília and its Federal District (DF) between the 1970s and 2010s. The DF is a territory of 2228 square miles carved out of the neighboring state of Goiás in 1959 when Brasília was built. Similar to the Federal District in Mexico and the District of Columbia in the United States, the Brazilian DF was created […]

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The Making of a Forest

May 24, 2018 by fredericofreitas

Landscape change at the Argentine-Brazilian border, 1953-2017 This series of interactive maps are a sequel to the ones I launched in 2014.  They show deforestation and reforestation in national parks at the border between Brazil and Argentina, between the 1950s and the 2010s. They use as source aerial imagery unearthed from Brazilian archives and historical satellite pictures, including some from US spy satellites from the 1960s. The visualizations show the impressive environmental change occurring in almost seven decades, when this […]

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Big Water

November 20, 2017 by fredericofreitas

Big Water is a book I edited with Jacob Blanc and published through University of Arizona Press in 2018. It is a book that focus on a overlooked Latin-American borderland, the Triple Frontier area between Brazil, Argentina, and Paraguay. From the press: “Big Water explores four centuries of the overlapping histories of Brazil, Argentina, and Paraguay (the Triple Frontier), and the colonies that preceded them. Examining an important area that includes some of the first national parks established in Latin […]

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Academic Posters

May 4, 2015 by fredericofreitas

Here are some academic posters I have made for events at Stanford.

Categories: Graphic Design, History • Tags: Brazil, History, Literature

O Brasil em 20 Estados

November 24, 2014 by fredericofreitas

Como seria o Brasil se fosse dividido em estados com populações parecidas? Há um tempo atrás eu topei com esse mapa dos Estados Unidos divididos em 50 estados com a mesma população e me deu vontade de fazer uma coisa parecida com o Brasil. O Brasil não tem colégio eleitoral como os EUA, mas as distorções que as diferenças de população entre os estados causam na representatividade da câmara são bem conhecidas. Usei as projeções do IBGE de Junho 2014 […]

Categories: Graphic Design • Tags: Brazil, Cartography, Geography, Political Boundaries, States

Punk Bands Per Country

November 9, 2014 by fredericofreitas

A couple of years ago reddit user depo_ made a map of heavy metal bands per capita. Following his/her lead, I made these map and chart with punk and hardcore bands per capita, but only with bands from the 1970s and 1980s. The data for the bands comes from Kill From The Heart and the population data (based on 1980) from Wikipedia. It seems that besides volcanoes and glaciers Iceland had also many punk bands in the 1980s. This explains […]

Categories: Graphic Design • Tags: Hardcore Punk, punk bands

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Boundaries of Nature

September 24, 2014 by fredericofreitas

Landscape Change in Southern Brazil, from 1953 to the Present DaySixty years of landscape change in the Iguaçu National Park, Brazil The Iguaçu National Park was created between 1939 and 1944 by the Brazilian national government at the border with Argentina. The creation of the park was disputed by the local state government, which, in the late 1950s, started to settle hundreds of families of Brazilians farmers inside park area. This later resulted in a conflicted process of removal and […]

Categories: History • Tags: Animation, Argentina, Deforestation, Graphic Design, History, Land Use, National Park, Visualization

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I am a historian and associate professor of digital and Latin American history at North Carolina State University.

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